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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21
Rernuda.

Iwarble! Bermuda is the subject OF my pe-ans
Potatoes, onions, not to say its bean
Let others sing its myrtles and its lemons,
My muse will celebrate the produce of its gem
mans.
The lowly onion takes up most the isle;
It dots the land for many mile on mile.
Its perfumes waited to our roses,
And mingles with the scent of roses.
The smell-we have TO make the most of;
The taste-no mortal here can boast of.
For when they're ripe-that very day,
They dig them, pack and ship away!
Potatoes go in countless number;
Not one is left the ground to cumber.
All are sent off! the stock gets short,
And then the cry is: Let's import"
Hartford Daily Times.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21
rerfectIy Legal

George" said the senior partner to the
iunior in law firm of three, 81 thought you
told me that Alfred had gone out of town on
LEGAL business? l understand he's down the
road en- visit to young lady," swell,
sir. !" said George, with an injured look, "it's
not illegal to call on a young lady, be-
lieye?''-Puck.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21
Civilization and the Coat Tail.

As the race degenerates and civilization
grows effeminate the effect is seen upon the
coat tail. 1t gradually recedes. 1t surrenders
more and more of its rights and privileges.
Its area of independent activity is narrowed
until it sinks to the degraded station of cuta-
way. The "steel pen," the "claw hammer
the "spade'-for there are various terms of re-
proach and ignominy employed to indicate
the state of subjection-mark the extreme
period of luxurious and effete decay After
this its fall is rapid The fall, paradoxically
enough, consists in crawling up the back, until
the once respectable and impressive member
of the body polite of dress becomes a mere
Renaissance, such as is attached to some
kinds of military uniforms. s.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21

bury college in 1889.
In 1S43 he entered
on the practice OF
law at st. Adams,
VT, and remained
till 1850, but did not
make a success in
the profession. Dur
ing the time he was
wearily waiting for
clients and business
he relieved his dull
ness by writing sa-
tirical sketches of
all sorts of persons
and things in his
acquaintance. A
few of these vera
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21
OSTRICH FARMING.
HOW A CALIFORNIA OSTRICH FARM
is CONDUCTED.
Cost and Profit Of the Experiment-What
the Big Birds Eat and How They Are
Racing.

Especial Correspondence
Los ANGELES, March 26-This palm land
about which the poets write so impassonedly
and tell Of its 'ladies with eyes held down."
has developed a new and interesting industry
ostrich farming. A car load of the big
birds from Africa arrived here recently, and
it was a sight to see them escorted to their
future home. The royal fowls were attended
by some Madrasese men and women, as the
people of that tribe and ostriches get on
better together than any others.
The Sketchley ostrich farm is six miles out
of the city. 1t is succeeding SO well that
several others will doubtless be attempted be-
fore long. One other has been started. How
ever, ostrich farming is an experiment that
requires some capital, as a full grown pair
Of birds is worth from S700 to $500, and a
single young one six months old cannot be
bought for less than $50, and often costs $780,
DR.. Sketchley was one of the pioneers in
ostrich farming III Africa. He spent many
years there in the business and was very sue
cesSful. He is the author Of several books on
the ostrich and the best method of making
him profitable. He visited Los Angeles was
delighted with the climate and determined to
see what it would do for his favorite birds
The result is his profitable farm of sixty acres,
on which are thirty pairs of beautiful, full
grown birds, and ever so many young ones.
All the big birds he imports directly from
Africa, landing them at Galveston. The doc
tor finds that California ostrich farming sue
ceeds even better than he expected. The os-
triches are as healthy as in Africa and far
more prolific in eggs and feathers-results,
too, due to this soft, delicious climate, which
increases the productive power of all animals
Each big bird weighs from 500 to 400
pounds and is from eight to twelve feet high
The male is black and is much the larger;
the female is gray. The white ostrich feath-
ers, so beautiful and SO expensive, are found
on both the male and female birds among the
loose feathers of the wings and tail. 1t is
their rarity which makes them so much de-
sired, for experts consider them, in some re-
spects, inferior to the other feathers.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21
THE ZALINSKI GUN.

torpedo strikes or not-this in case it be de-
sired to drop torpedoes in the path of an ap-
preaching vessel. The gun is SO accurately
balanced and the chambers OF condensed air
SO well arranged that only one man is re-
auired to aim and fire it. Tests that seem
perfectly satisfactory haye already been
made with this gun, and much has been writ
ten and said of it. Among other plans de-
vised by its inventor is gunboat upon which
two guns of greater caliber than the one under
consideration will be mounted. A boat OF
this design is now being constructed for the
United States government.
The balloon fer the Paris exhibition OF 1888
will carry up 100 persons
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21

of all the justices
of the peace and
township officers in
the great state of
Illinois, atten d s
farmers con V n
tions and discourses
learnedly on drain
age and tiling, and
finds time, besides,
to dabble a little
in politics. In fact,
Elijah is a great
politician. He has
been in the illinois
legislature SO many
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21

is therefore but 81
years old. He was
graduated from
Ober lin, Ohio,
when he was but
90 years cid. II e
afterward took a
course in the law
school there, and
began practice in
L e ave n wort h,
Kan. He remained,
there but a short
time, however, and
III e. n moved to
Kansas City, where
ha hoc c,naa -1
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21

the season at an eX-
penditure of $780,
900 in the finest
M an sion in the
state of Maryland
"a house that cost
a cool half million.
He took a party of
friends in private
cars to the Mon
\ treal carnival and
10 C cupied while
, there the biggest
and most costly
residence in the
city. And now he
figures as the CEN
trail igure in the
biggest railroad
deal that the world
b as ever known.
He is only 40 years
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21

UNITED STATES TORPEDO BOAT ALARM.
The Alarm torpedo ram, was designed by
Admiral Porter, and is the only torpedo boat
owned by the United States government. 1t
is 173 feet long, q feet inches wide, has a
draught Of 12 feet, and projecting from the
bow is an immense under water ramming
PROV SO feet long. This is covered with
wrought iron armor four and half inches
thick, and in it is the torpedo machinery.
This consists of q spar thirty-five feet long,
which can in an instant be run out twenty
five feet beyond the point of the PROV. On
the end of this spar the torpedo is to be placed
and fired at will by means OF electric wires
laid in grooves along the spar and running to
firing pedestal on deck.
Still more ingenious is the Mallory Propel-
Ter, by which the screw driving wheel can be
shifted to a direction almost at right angles
to the boat and thus whirl the latter around
as though on pivot. On the bow, above, is
heavy gun, and Hotchkiss and Gatling ma
chine guns line the Sides So 1t is gunboat,
ram and torpedo boat in one.
But the most novel, and, if successful, the
most formidable Of recent inventions, is the
torpedo gun. Lieut.. Zalinski describes it as a
"pneumatic dynamite torpedo gun"-that is, a
gun for projecting dynamite torpedoeS by
compressed air. The barrel is sixty feet long,
of iron tubing and lined with brass to secure
smoothness. 1t is expected to throw cylin-
drical brass or steel torpedo, eight inches in di-
ameter, and carrying charge of sixty pounds
of dynamite distance of two and quarter
miles, The torpedo is exploded by an cleo
trio fuse within it: one kind by shock on con
tact with the vessel; the other to ignite in a
given time by chemical action, whether the
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21
Making War on the "Growler."

4.
Away with the ''growler!" the "growler" must 90.
Away with the beer can, that fountain of woe.
Away with the tempter and his power to ensnare
The angels of childhood who pass by his lair.
Away with this sin breeding author of woel
Away with the "growlerl' the ''growler" must 20,
New York w. G. 7. Union Song.
sprained His Hyphen.
All true Irishmen chuckle to note that Sir
Niehael Hicks-Beach has sprained his hyphen.
Philadelphia Record.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21
G.. n. J. TAYLOR.

Appointed Minister to Liberia, the Negro
Republic.
c. H. ]. Taylor, lately appointed minister
to Liberia was born in Alabama in 1850 and
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21
THE RED MANS FRIEND.
SACHEM HAINES, A REMARKABLE
FIGURE OF THE WEST.
PhenOmenally Active Man Who De-
fends the Indians Reputation-The
Native Language Not Jargon-Indian
Especial Correspondence.

Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, April 5.-One of the queerest
characters in the west is Elijah NJ Haines,
the sage of Waukegan. | know Elijah well,
and think him remarkable man. Though
three score years and ten have passed over
his head, he is as lively as a boy in his teens,
and the activity of his mind is something
wonderful. He edits law paper, writes law
books by the score, corrects in the press
everybody who goes astray on matters of
history, is writing his "reminiscences of fifty
years in Illinois, carries on a large publish
Ing business, is the tutor and general referee
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21
ROBERT GARRETT.
Portrait of the Youngest Railroad Presi
dent in the Country.


Especial Correspondence
BALTIMORE, Md, March 2S.-For some
time now the attention of the railroad
world has been centered upon Robert Gar
rett, the head executive of the Baltimore
and Ohio, and the youngest president of a
great railroad line in this country. Mr. Garrett
has been attracting great deal of interest for
several months. He gave the grandest ball of
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21
THE DAKOTA FLOODS.
Pictures from the Distressed Regions OF
the Northwest.

Pictures from tho Distressed Regions OF
the Northwest.
Readers are so accustomed to thinking OF
Dakota as a land Of drought in late summer
and autumn, and of frozen solidity in winter,
that the news of destructive floods there
comes to them as startling surprise Yet
great floods are no new phenomena in that
territory; they excite public attention now
only because the region subject to them has
so lately filled with inhabitants. Dakota
floods arise from two curiously distinct causes.
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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-04-21

uer out into the kitchen and see how many
tramps the cook is feeding at my expense.n-
Detroit Free Press.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-22

While the Chicago buodlera we're at it,
so far al is known they porketed thee
quarters OF e million do!lers. These acoun.
drels and their triendo ware wiling to SO.
sumo the burden Of public aitairu, and the
people, who paid the piper, we're willing
to let them do it.
business men we're too busy making
money to pay any attention to saving at
tho bunehole. They had no time to.at.
tend primaries, and, II they were like
business men elsewhere, some OF them
had not time to 20 to the polls on election
day. Men whose fortunes were already
made spent their timo and their money in
pleasure seeking, while the boodlers were
Sccking pleasure at their expenae.
Everything was assumed to DO going
right until the bottom fell out. Then there
wsa a rude awakening, and n chorus OF
ITO the p~enitcntiary with them" To the
penltentiasy SONS nrs going, but others
will never got go lar, and the stolen hun.
dreds Of thouasnds will come back no more
forever.
The people Of my city may have an ex.
perience OF this kind re- often 40 they in.
vito it; and when 1t comes they ought not
to faint with uusprise. The relation be.
tween cause and effect ia very intimate.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-22

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany will sell round trip tickets to and
from all all stations on its Trsns.Ohio Di-
~visions, including Pittsburgh, and to all
points on the Columbua 4 Cincinnati
Midland Railroad, including Cincinnati,
g. enc iare for tho round trip. Tickets
vii! DO good going July O. and 4, and
wlll DO good returning unit! July 5, inclu-
There will be Fourth Of July cslebra.
tious at Columbus, Mount Vernon, Chi
cago Junction, Deahler, GAINESVILLE, Ma.
panee, New Concord, Mansfield and other
points on the line. Temperance picnic at
Burr's Mills. The First Regiment, Ohio
National Guards, will be in camp at Wash.
inaton O. II: The races at Columbus
commence July 4.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-22

The Commencement Exercises Standing OF
Pupils In tho Various Departments.
Correspondence oftht Ia!eligaHor.
BEVERLY, ". VA, Juno l7.-Tho eighth
annual commencement Of the Randolph
Female Seminary took place Monday,
June IS. The. baccalaurcate sermon was
delivered by the Roy. J. NJ. Vandevanter,
Of Beverly.
The commencement exercises were held
In the Presbyterian church, which was
beautifully decorated with wreaths and
teatoons OF flowers and evergreens. The
pupils Of the Seminary marched up the
lsle singirg Coward Christlsu Soldiers"
taking their seats as they finished the
hymn. d
There were two graduates this year,
Misses Jeesic Wilson and Buelah, Collect.
Tho following is the programme:
"Sopg OF seycn"-A poem Illustrating the seven
cp0chs in IL womKn's lie by Misses Birdie collo;i,
Jesd0 @ilSon, Nora lAaker, Buelah Collect. Hattie
Wilson; Ida Boswotth and little DELPHI stEsdSt.
n Rsf~SsIts, 1Io,D..;aTslI..ii'; can i iGs RcSsSn IL s%nia nucnsy
W ktradcr, , roy Buckley aud Stella Crawford.
Recitation Story Of Caautc' "".": Dlrnis Boswood
Observation-Disclosures lalr' -.,.....rfimaty Glass
oigan solo ::;:;.::T,.'.mi Carrie Harding
Misses ZuclIa Dewitt and Ella Daniels,
Recita,ion-"lwo Mites ....;i..S;@a y kittle
G pISiaaSeo:%sys cT psyius YG csI Minis colls.t
vo. Ga Idle Baker Mary Dow sst, a.: And m"n T,h Ts,,ov
ReeItatlon-"GuilIy or Not GUILTY. ................
MIS- Nora Wilson.
Vocal at.ses Wilson and co'iest
Floyd stfader and Eddie B,ker,
Essay-"llie' ."...... ........."..".a !ss BuelGh Collect
Vocal t9!o-..:. Miss Eva Doswofth
Recitation -"ChRrge Of the Light Brigade see ....,.
Eddie Baker.
sesltuion%"Iuri i;.iI Of Noses" Hiss i Laura Ira Co!lett
Vocal Duet .............H Misses y lison and Boswotth
y seei,s saIa l'Fceches' = SeI,on wilson:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Do You OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Miss Lottie Wilson.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ieGoii. sess.e WILSON.
Miss Matte Hart, GI..
Vocal Dret-.-.....-.. Misses Morn and Hattie Baker.
Presentation Of Certificates and address 10 grad
uatcs, Misses Wilson and Cal!cit, by Rev. Vaudo.
vauter. I I- r. 7..'.a F .u'..
Recltatlon-"Thc Lat Hymn. ......
Miss BuelAh Collect.
Lssny- lone Miss Jessie Wilson
REPORT Of Principal. /
The following pupils excelled in scholar.
ship and department ia the different de-
partmcnts: In tho Infant department,
DELPHI Strader stands frat In scholarship,
Stella Crawford first in department.
First claea in Primary department, Lera
Greynolda stood frat and Florence Bos.
worth stood cecond in scholarship and de.
pertinent. IL the Preparatory depart.
ment, Ada BoaHorth' stands frat. In the
intermediate department, Matte Hart
stands fret and Laura Collect second. In
the collegiate department, JESSIE Wilson
stands first and Hattie Baker second. The
MisBe1 Hattie Wilson, Birdie Colleit, Eva
Boaworth, Nora Baker and Hattie Baker
vera awarded certificates Of proficiency.
Tho vocal solos, duets, etc., were rendered
with splendid effect, speaking well for
Miss Jones, the music teacher.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-22

comes to base ball we've got you, and
don't you forget III"
six!een tons OF ~licorice root, cut and
bsled, Is ready for nhipment from the
ranch Of Isaac Leal, Sacramento valley,
California, who has made quite q succeRs
o. its culture.
The latest fashionable crszs in England
10 eaid TO be amateur dreesmakinp. in
which enthusiasm wakes 40 warm that
rooms are opened in q public building to
exhibit the dresses made by amateurs,
some Of whom are very rich, fashionable
women, and ladies Of title. Original de.
pigna are introduced and prizes arc award
ed to successful competitors.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-22
a. Philadelphia saloon.Keepcr has n Dsaf,

Philadelphia saioon.keepcr has n Draft.
A saloon-keeper named Terrence J..
Lynch, at the S. E. COZ. OF 18th and Lo-
cnst sts:, some weeks ago was asked to
take q ticket in the May drawing OF The
Louisiana State Lottery and was knocked
abeck by tho information that ticket No.
1906, Of which he held oue.tsnth had
drawn the Capital Prizs Of $3.50, 600. His
draft Tor the money was placed in tho
hands OF the Third National Bank Of
Phila., and was promptly paid. This is
the third Capital Prize Of $4,000, ffac-
hons OF which have been paid within the
past three months in Philadelphis.-PhiI-
adelphta telegraph, May %. DAw.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-22
GIm QntdliQf1Mtx
wIlEELINo, ". VA, JUNE ~. 1887.
emit Lot Co.

II would BIO only natural II thoso who
feel Obliged TO apologize for tho President
were glad 10 let the flag matter drop and
boa though II never had been. 1t Is not
go with the Register, which fans the flame
vigorously by drawing on the 1SrELLloGN.
Chr the "desdly parallel" The lsrELtt.
oEScEE Ia not unmindful Of any Of tho
comments 1t has made on this unhappy
business, and nothing that has been said
Ia inconsistent with anything else that has
been said.
AS the proposition frat reached the
country 1t was in 4 very indefinite form,
and seemed to relate to the State flags
captured in battle. Always glad to assist
In anything that promises to add to the
good feeling that ia growing up between
the once clashing sections, the 1SrELLi
GgNCEn said that while the President
clearly had no right 10 act in the premises,
CongreEs could, and that 1t would be q
graceful thing to do. The e!ates arc in
being, and have the proper authorities to
receive anything that may be tendosed to
them.
TO our surprise the President was en-.
guged in q very different business. lie
had ordered the return OF the captured
flaga to ''the Confederate States" as wit
ncas his letter to the Secretary OF War,
He had intended to return to an alleged
sovereignty, never before recognized and
not now having my status whatever, III
flags captured in battle. 1t may be doubt.
cd whether the most export mind reader
could hare detected that this was In the
Presidents mind. Tho ISTELLlaEscER il
entirely willing to coniega that it had mol
placed upon Mr.. Cleveland an estimate
that would have warranted such a SUE.
picion.
The iasue boldly and wantonly preuent'
ed to the country BY the PRECEDENT has
developed the fact that the gallant do.
lenders Of the Union who won these nsgs
would bitterly resent the return Of them
under any circumstances, and now the IN
T~RLLldEScEE would not be willing to see
even tho State flags returned by an net OF
Congress. This much Difference ahou!d
BIO paid to the survivors Of the glorious
hostB that fought and won the battles for
the Union. While We are making good
feelings in the South towards tho North,
it is not the highest OF patriotism to over
look the fact that the veterans OF the
Union armies have somo feelings which
ought to be conRulted.
The Register ovcrlooka the fact tina. the
indignation and modification aroused by
the President are not confined to Republi-
cana. There are Democrats whose resent
nent is 90 strong that they arc done With
Mr.. Cleveland ioreysr. Possibly the
Register has heard from some Of these,
which may be why it is in auch q state of
mind that it can't let 20. No Republican
will object to take g hand in the discus-
sion ns often ss it may BIO presented and
in whatever form.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-22
a Correction.

a"tHhI .lEH NltHH a CofFtCtl0ns aIH-s.tAA1'is
To nt Editor Of As i~a.titeeer.
slR-Allow me to correct a mIs.state..
ment In your notice Of the present efforts
to secure "Home for FriendIess Women
and Girls." s1 n
i 10 the Women'8 Christian Associstion
Of Wheeling that ia meant, aud not The
Women'a Union Benevolent Society,"
The Women'a Christian Association was
organized In 1884 and has ever aimee been
doing y quiet but effective work. II has
sought to have n vice prcsident in each
OF the seventeen Proteatant churches OF
our city, and these vice presidents are to
secure in their respective churches the
cooperation Of others who will engage
with them In Christian work. The city
being districted, n district Ia assigned to
each yico president and her aids. Il is
their duty to visit every home, to the In.
mates OF which theylntroducs themselyeu
40 members Of the Whiting Committee OF
the .Women's Christian Association.
They invite them to church and Sunday
school II thoy have not been In the habit
Of attending these places. They report
to.the clergymen OF tho various denomi.
nations any individual or family who
express q preference for a denomination.
II they have no preference they are in.
vited to attend the church nearest to their
home. The knowledge thua gained Of our
city and is sins and sorroTs has deyel.
opod q band Of women whb arc trying ia
help homeless girls to keep themselves
pure and upright. Only those whose
knowledge OF the city Ia wide and thorough
can imagine how eagerly the "powers o!
d~arkness' try to obtain control oi.the lives
Of our Young girls, and how much a little
encouragement does for the homeless ones
who would rather follow the good. The
work o. prevention strives 10 got ahead Of
the evil.
A called meeting Of the Women's Chris.
tian Association will be held in the Young
Mems Christian Association parlors at s
o'clock this afternoon. Come to thil
meeting and help in the very important
work now mapped out. MEMBER,
Wheeling, June q.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-22

No n should miss the opportunity to
see and examine the mnnikin. or model OF
the human body, now on exhibition at
Logan L Co.'S drug store, bridge corner,
Main atreet, Wheeling, ". We. An es-
pecially valuable and instructive feature
is the light 1t throws on these important
organs, the kidneys; showing them in g
sound state and also Then diseased by m
engagement oiimprre blood. The docu.
ments setting forth the mode by which
kaskine, the new quinine, relieves and
cures this condition arc equally clear and
convincing. -